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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (80572)	5/24/2007 3:01:01 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

When will you answer? Message 23568034

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (80572)	5/24/2007 3:26:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

LOL! So it was not the local guerrilla forces that overran the US Embassy, eh?! It wasn't any force that overran the US embassy in 1968, because it wasn't fully overrun (until Saigon fell in 1975, to conventional forces) It was guerrilla forces that attacked it, and took temporary control of part of it, in '68. The result was that the guerrillas were killed or captured. It was a stunt, not a serious military setback. Unfortunately it was an effective stunt, which was of course the whole point of the attack. In any case, even if they had overrun the entire embassy it would not have meant they won the war. In fact the campaign the attack was part of (The Tet Offensive) was perhaps the biggest reason the guerrilla forces were weakened to such an extent, and the embassy attack itself was a small part of that weakening. The government of South Vietnam wasn't pushed down by guerrillas in 1968, but by large conventional units in 1975.